Screenplay: Pat Conroy

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Jon Voight · Paul Winfield · Madge Sinclair · Hume Cronyn

Plot The true story of Pat Conroy, who tried to teach a group of illiterate Black children in South Carolina by using common-sense teaching techniques to inspire their interest. Voight is...

Direction Barbra Streisand

Cast Nick Nolte · Barbra Streisand · Blythe Danner · Kate Nelligan

Plot Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) is a disillusioned Southern coach who must reveal his tortured childhood in order to help his suicidal sister. Streisand is Susan Lowenstein, the determined psychiatrist who...

Direction Lewis John Carlino

Cast Robert Duvall · Blythe Danner · Michael O'Keefe · Stan Shaw

Plot The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the peaceful years before the Vietnam war. Bull Meechum, the...

Direction Franc Roddam

Cast David Keith · Robert Prosky · G.D. Spradlin · Barbara Babcock

Plot Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will...

Plot Remake of the 1991 film of the same name, which was itself an adaptation of the 1986 novel by Pat Conroy. Like the film the series will follow Tom Wingo,...

Direction John Kent Harrison

Cast Jeff Hephner · Frank Langella · James Murtaugh · Alfre Woodard

Plot Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on Yamacrew Island. Staffless...

Direction Dick Lowry

Cast Peter Coyote · Dermot Mulroney · Tess Harper · Jenny Robertson

Plot In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richard Flowers is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.